Surah 105 · 5 verses
Al-Fil
الفيل
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Alam tara kaifa fa'ala rabbuka bi ashaabil feel
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Interpretation
O Messenger! Do you not know how your Lord dealt with Abraha and his people: the people of the elephant, when they intended to demolish the Ka‘bah?
Scholars' interpretation (al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir). This is neither the Qur'an nor a translation of the verse.
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
Alam yaj'al kai dahum fee tad leel
Word by word
Interpretation
Allah made their evil plot to destroy it in vain; they did not achieve what they desired in trying to turn the people away from the Ka‘bah. They did not succeed in the slightest.
Scholars' interpretation (al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir). This is neither the Qur'an nor a translation of the verse.
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
Wa arsala 'alaihim tairan abaabeel
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Interpretation
Allah sent birds upon them, who came to them in flocks upon flocks.
Scholars' interpretation (al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir). This is neither the Qur'an nor a translation of the verse.
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
Tar meehim bi hi jaaratim min sij jeel
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Interpretation
They pelted them with stones of clay.
Scholars' interpretation (al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir). This is neither the Qur'an nor a translation of the verse.
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And He made them like eaten straw.
Faja 'alahum ka'asfim m'akool
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Interpretation
So Allah made them like the leaves of crops that have been eaten and trampled upon by livestock.
Scholars' interpretation (al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir). This is neither the Qur'an nor a translation of the verse.